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ABA Journal Daily News
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Miami is the first city to study the impacts of climate gentrification, a shift in consumer preferences for higher ground as climate change sends sea levels rising that displaces poor residents of color in Miami's few high elevation communities. When Paulette Richards answered the door of her Little Haiti home a year ago, she found […]
Last month, Birdman reduced the price on his Miami mansion in hopes of a quick sale. It turns out, the price cut might be related to a possible foreclosure. Foreclosure News
With seven bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, Bryan “Birdman” Williams' Miami Beach “birdhouse” was listed for $ 20 million over the summer. The asking price was just reduced to a more affordable $ 16.9 million. Foreclosure News
A star of the now-defunct “The Real Housewives of Miami” faces the loss of her home of 13 years. Alexia Echevarria , a magazine publisher known on the Bravo reality fare as “the Cuban Barbie,” has been slapped with a foreclosure lawsuit by BankUnited. Foreclosure News
The buyer of the Wausau Center Mall is the bank that called for its foreclosure auction, according to court documents filed Friday. Marathon County Sheriff Scott Parks reported that a limited liability company named RSS WFRBS2011C4 WCPC was the highest bidder at $ 12.8 million during the July 25 sheriff's action A year ago, a […]
Beloved Miami Heat legend Rice, 50, managed to unload a downtown condo he owned with ex-wife Cristy , a former star of Real Housewives of Miami, just weeks before it was to be sold in a foreclosure auction. With his financial situation looking as grim as a Shaquille O'Neal free throw, Rice was desperate to […]
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Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez stands near a demolished vacant property in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami. The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing Miami's case to sue banks that the city accuses of predatory lending. Foreclosure News
In the last of its landmark civil rights laws, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968 to prevent African-Americans from being blocked from getting mortgages in white neighborhoods or from getting less favorable mortgage rates. Almost a half century later, Miami is asking the Supreme Court to decide whether major banks should pay the […]